After surviving yet another raging flood that took away their home and belongings, Kasiglahan residents are at a loss as to how to start again.
Month: November 2020
Balik-Tanaw | The blessed ones
Amid this miserable situation, we are still a nation not running out with GREAT PEOPLE…They are sometimes called activists, human rights defenders, advocates, change makers, dreamers. However, under Anti-Terrorism Act, they can be called terrorists or be victims of red-tagging.
Kasiglahan’s miserable state highlights disregard for the poor’s right decent housing
Under existing policies and government priorities, there seems to be no safe place for displaced poor of Metro Manila. They have been deprived of the right to city, to adequate housing, and to decent life. Typhoon Ulysses (international name: Vamco) has again brought to the fore the government’s criminal neglect.
Aparición | Honey May Suazo
Hanimay Suazo is a high-profile human rights defender in Davao City. In 2019, she was disappeared after being red-tagged by an Army general.
Manila judge faces raps for parting Baby River from political prisoner ma
Human rights lawyers representing Reina Mae Nasino said the Manila judge exhibited manifest bias and partiality against the political prisoner and her co-accused.
Vaccine
By DEE AYROSO
The aftermath
A farmer, Nida Davao in barangay San Jose, Montalban, Rizal checking her crops after the typhoon hit their village.
Then and now, indigenous peoples fighting for ancestral lands charged with terrorism
This is not the first time that a national minority was charged with terrorism.
Philippine Army soldiers kill journalist in Masbate
“He (Villamor) is the 19th slain during the Duterte administration and the 191st since 1986. “
Cops disperse kin, friends commemorating 40th day of Baby River’s death
“There is something wrong because her 23-year old mother was detained not because she did something wrong, but because she was wrongfully accused.” — Bishop Broderick Pabillo
Students condemn Duterte’s ‘criminal negligence’
“Filipino youth’s strike back against Duterte’s criminal negligence today could also be seen as a parallelism to the Czechoslovakian students’ fight against the Nazi occupation.”